"The basic question is, why can't we relax when we have nothing to do

and enjoy a little bit of space in our lives?

The problem is that we are afraid of our own hearts.

We can't afford to open up, because who knows what we might feel."

 

Andy Karr and Michael Wood

  

 

 

"We sometimes mistake a rude life for a rude mind

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 Lack of conversation for lack of imagination."

Barry Lopez

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"

Albert Einstein

 

 

 

 

 

"By September, the day breaks with little help from birds. A song sparrow may give a single half-hearted song, a woodcock may twitter overhead en route to his daytime thicket, a barred owl may terminate the night's argument with one last wavering call, but few other birds have anything to say or sing."

 

 

"There is a peculiar virtue in the music of elusive birds. Songsters that sing from top-most boughs are easily seen and as easily forgotten; they have the mediocrity of the obvious. What one remembers is the invisible hermit thrush pouring silver chords from impenetrable shadows; the soaring crane trumpeting from behind a cloud; the prairie chicken booming from the mist of nowhere; the quail's Ave Maria in the hush down."

 

Aldo Leopold

 

 

 

 

 

What if beauty was juts our name for experiences that push us out of our mental ruts

and burst open our reducing valves of consciousness?

 

Bianca Bosker

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is impossible to pay proper attention to your life if you are hurtling along at lightning speed.

 

When yourjob is to see things other people don't,

you have to slow down enough that you can actually look.

 

In an age obsessed with speed, slowing down requires special training.

 

Austin Kleon 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

"Go ahead and tell your filters of expectation to take a hike."

 

"The uncertainty of not knowing what you'll find is part of the thrill."

 

Bianca Bosker

 

 

 

"Subjects" we are, that look at "objects". Quickly we stick labels on all that is, labels that stick once and for all. By these labels we recognize everything but no longer SEE anything. We know the labels on all the bottles, but never taste the wine.

 Frederick Franck

 

 

 

 

Our ability to discover is generally greater than our ability to invent.

It is easier to find a world than to make one.

Kit white

 

 

Elders are more often listeners than speakers.

And when they speak, they can talk for long while without using the word I.

Barry Lopez

 

" Nature will be fine without us."

Barry Lopez

 

 

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see"

Henry David Thoreau